Science

It's okay, I'll keep eating that garbage

Okay, and Tylenol doesn't cure a headache. It does help deal with the symptoms though. Cannabis absolutely helps take the edge off of anxiety and depression for me when used occasionally. It doesn't cure the issue but it doesn't mean it's not helpful to take the edge off while I work on more permanent solutions to my problem. Imagine if the only meds on the market were things that completely cure a problem as opposed to just helping someone get through it while they heal or work other solutions. Allergy meds would be gone, cough meds, painkillers, sleeping meds...hell even caffeine should be taken off the market because it doesn't permanently make it so you don't have to sleep it just helps keep you awake for a bit. Even the most popular anti-anxiety, Xanax, doesn't cure anxiety...is also highly addictive...can also lead to a whole host of other things...it's used to deal with either severe anxiety (while you undergo treatment) or acute anxiety in one-off moments like before a stressful procedure or to stop a panic attack.

What an absolutely fucking ridiculous standard to hold something to. Fuck the entire anti weed lobby forever.

As someone who has abused both alcohol and cannabis, I can say cannabis is much less harmful. However, it's pretty easy to go overboard with it. Like most things in life, it's best in moderation. I enjoy it once or twice a week now, sometimes even less. I think if you're getting drunk or high every day there are probably some other issues at play.

the drugs that people take to deal with their anxiety, depression and PTSD don't actually cure anxiety, depression and PTSD? they just provide relief from the symptoms? no shit

I'm doing my own very large study and it has found strong evidence that it works

Some limited benefits were seen for conditions like insomnia and autism, but the evidence is weak

That's okay, I didn't need to respect science any less than I already do but thank you

I was always sceptical of such claims. People just love to justify their substance use with some alleged health benefits. It's like how people used to believe drinking a glass of wine a day was good for you

That said, it should still be legal

yeah no shit, it was always about symptom control wasn't it?

Lol I was like didn't we already have a struggle session over this, but it was largely about how shit Contrapoints is now.

https://hexbear.net/post/8100254

Oh really. Remind me which illnesses alcohol helps treat, while enjoying a more free existence than cannabis?

xStraightEdgexGanondorfx rises.

My only opinion on weed is that alcohol is far worse for you. Maybe I shouldn't have an opinion though because I haven't smoked weed or drunk alcohol since high school

Wild that something like alcohol is legal. I wonder if the reason is that it's so tied into Anglo culture to be drunk as shit all the time that they can't make it illegal? That shit is so bad for you. I've seen it ruin so many peoples health and mood

Implications of all the available evidence Cannabinoids are increasingly being authorised for the treatment of mental disorders and SUDs, yet our review shows little evidence of efficacy. There is a substantial gap between clinical use and available evidence. It is concerning that the use of these treatments could delay or replace the use of more effective therapies. There is a crucial need for improved study design that includes larger and more representative participant samples.

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all of this really 🤔

editorialized title, mid study, great post comrade this will certainly get a ton of comments where Hexbears confuse personal opinion with fact I have no notes for you

There were no significant effects on outcomes associated with anxiety, anorexia nervosa, psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and opioid use disorder. There were insufficient data to meta-analyse studies of ADHD, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and tobacco use disorder. There was an absence of RCT evidence for the treatment of depression.

This study, or meta-study, as it's just coalescing existing ones. Found none showed significant benefits, although it sounds like it is more just a lack of evidence rather than evidence of it not helping. Especially with depression. Which makes the headline disingenuous. "No evidence that it treats these" but also we don't have enough evidence to actually say.

I smoke weed to be high not to help with anything

My issue with cannabis is its effects are super inconsistent on me. I'll take two gummies form the same batch on two different day, one day it will make me feel chill as fuck, the other I'll be doing push ups on my underwear to try and burn off the anxiety.

Get inside my brain for a few days and then hit my bowl and then say it

Is this the same 'study' Contrapoints tweeted about?

it gets rid of my gender dysphoria and makes me feel extra femme and comfortable in my skin for a few hours and also focuses my ADHD brain. downside is i get really tired afterward

but since im mostly a before bed user the tired part is useful

never used it to reduce anxiety. seems neutral for me in that regard. also i love how it lets me open up to spirituality and sensory experience still after all these years

I think the real science is that there are a bunch of bible thumpers that don't want people to have any fun, and greedy rich people who want slave labor provided by prisons. Fucking gross. I don't give two shits if it helps or not. Stop wasting money to incarcerate people for nonsense and stop enriching sociopaths.

I just came in to say that the weed brain image from thw thumbnail should be an emoji, I would've joined this struggle session but then I got high

i did try to use it to help with anxiety and it didn't do much for me, but i imagine the high would help with anxiety?

it also definitely helps with insomnia for me, but the gummies i take only really make me sleepy and nothing else.

I have a hard time believing this given the profound anxiety and panic attacks it gives me. It’s clearly doing something to the anxiety part of my brain

Wasn't that a meta-analysis, not a study? IIRC it just went over surveys other studies had conducted and collated them into one big analysis.

And I mean I can't stand the stuff personally, it makes me feel hungover as its active effect and even just walking through a room someone's been smoking weed in gives me the start of a headache, so "for most people this doesn't work, or makes them feel worse" is sort of to be expected and is not at odds with "for some people it actually feels good and medicates something in their head". Different people respond differently to different substances, and this seems to be one with a huge individual variance.

Regular overuse definitely messes with my mental health. I was high like 24/7 for a couple years in college and I swear it gave me a heart palpitation.

Long as i can still be high at work i couldn't care less what a study says

Who said I wanted it to?